Amy Pfenning MSN CPNP PC

Amy Pfenning, MSN, CPNP-PC 

Medical | Pediatrics

A lifelong Vermonter, Amy Pfenning, MSN, CPNP-PC, has dedicated her life to caring for the people in the Rutland area. As a primary care provider, hospitalist, educator, active community member, and award-winning healthcare professional, she joined Community Health in 2018. In 2017, she received a master’s degree as a pediatric nurse practitioner from Maryville University. Her undergraduate nursing degrees are from Castleton State College (now University) and Walden University.

For 20 years before joining Community Health, she was a nurse manager and educator at Rutland Regional Medical Center, caring for women and children in their inpatient pediatric mother/baby labor and delivery units.

Pfenning has a dual role at Community Health, one as a primary care provider seeing patients at the practice, and secondly as a hospitalist caring for newborns, emergency room admissions, transports, and children who are hospitalized.

Pfenning has been named “Best Nurse� in the Rutland Herald’s People’s Choice Best of the Best Awards, a recognition she calls “humbling.�

As an active parent and community member, she has developed strong relationships outside of her professional responsibilities. “This job isn’t what you do but who you are,� she says.

Her downtime is spent with her large extended family, her husband of 30+ years, and grown children, traveling, or gardening.

Philosophy of Care

It is a privilege to partner with families and humbling to know that people respect your professional opinion in such a way as to trust you with the number one thing that’s important in life; their children.

Professional Interests: 
Pediatrics | Neonatal

Education & Training

Education

  • Master’s Degree, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Maryville University
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Walden University
  • Associate Degree in Nursing from Castleton State College

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Nurse Certification Board

License States

  • VT

Honors & Awards

2022 Rutland Community Nurse Practitioner of the Year  •  2021 Winner, Best Nurse Category, Rutland Herald Best of the Best Reader’s Choice Awards  •  2018 Winner, Best Nurse Category, Rutland Herald Best of the Best Readers’ Choice Award

Seeing patients at. . .

Pediatrics clinic exterior

Community Health Pediatrics

1 General Wing Road
Rutland, VT 05701